• The Go-Go's multi-platinum selling debut album, BEAUTY AND THE BEAT, co-produced, recorded and mixed by Rob Freeman, topped Billboard's Top-100 Albums chart at #1 for six consecutive weeks! It spawned two Top-20 singles, one of which, "We Got the Beat," peaked at #2.

• BEAUTY AND THE BEAT became the first #1 album in music history by an all-girl group who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments.

• BEAUTY AND THE BEAT was named #1 on the College Music Journal (CMJ)Top-1000 Albums of the Decade,1979-1989! (That's of the decade, folks!!)

• In its 1982 year-end wrap-up charts, Billboard bestowed the following awards upon The Go-Go's andBEAUTY AND THE BEAT:

#1 TOP POP ARTIST OF THE YEAR

#1 TOP POP ALBUM ARTISTS

#1 TOP POP ALBUM ARTIST DUOS/GROUPS

#2 TOP POP ALBUM

On those same Billboard year-endcharts, The Go-Go's BEAUTY AND THE BEAT ranked above a distinguished list of huge-selling albums by artists that included The Rolling Stones, Foreigner, Asia, Journey, John Cougar, The Police, Genesis, AC/DC, Diana Ross, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Ozzy Osbourne,
Loverboy, Olivia Newton-John, Alabama, Willie Nelson, Vangelis (whose
"Chariots of Fire" soundtrack knocked BEAUTY AND THE BEAT out of the
#1 position on the Top-100 Album chart), Stevie Nicks, Kenny Rogers, Rick Springfield, and Air Supply.

• Rob's
production of Tim Moore's beat-ballad single "Yes," propelled by its
popularity as the love theme for a well-known Novela (Spanish soap
opera), remained at #1 simultaneously on the Brazilian and Portugese
record charts for an astonishing six months!